The global accountancy profession has an important role in making organisations more responsible and accountable in the pursuit of sustainable development, says ACCA in a new policy paper published today called Sustainability Matters
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On a global scale, the GECS Confidence and Recovery indices both rose in early 2014, bringing business confidence just short of positive territory for the first time in five years
The UK’s fortunes have transformed since mid-2013, and this broadly upward trajectory continued in early 2014, according to the GECS, the largest regular economic survey of accountants in the world, which gauges the views of ACCA and IMA finance professionals globally …